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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

The report has again come from
London that the most gigantic of the
American corporations, the Standard
Oil Company, is contemplating enter
ing upon ascheme with the Rothschilds
of Paris to buy up the Russian oil
wells at Baku. Although, on the other
hand, it is stated or the authority OF
the treasurer ofthe company, that the
corporations mot on the v of max
ing an important purchase of Baku oil
wells" it is generally conceded that
nothing would please the Standard
people more than to control the for.
eign market. They have succeeded in
controlling almost the entire petro-
leum field of America.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03
Analogy Between Plants and Animals

Analogy Between Plants and Animals
Pollen is not a simple substance. but
a compound, and while its princinlAof
lice is to convey to the female cell1fer-
tilizing materials, it may also carry ell
ements of health or disease. as well 10
those that are or may become heredita-
ry characteristics Of its race. In the
animal kingdom we have an. exact par
allel case, for leaving out all mental
Impressions, the male parent contrib
utes no more toward the production Of
the offspring in proportion to size, and
we doubt if as much, as does the male
in the vegetable kingdom. Still, no
breeder of choice stock would willingly
permit the conglomeration or adulter-
alton of the blood of the female BY 3
scrub animal, " or e one out of the
direct line of the pure breed. 1t is an
old saying that there is q black sheep
In almost every flock" but there are
probably few persons who know the
full significance of this phrase when
applied to sheep, and especially to the
long known American Merinoes. No
breeder of these sheep in the past fifty
or sixty years has allowed a black male
in his flock, and yet. almost every sea-
son an W. among the pure bloods, IS
they are called, will drop a black lamb,
a direct reversion to some early ances-
ter of this color. No one can tell how
long, or through how many genera
tons, this early contamination will
continue to show itself. Similar cases
of reversion. the result of contamina-
ton of blood, as it may be termed, are
known to frequently occur among all
of our domesticated and improved
breeds of animals, and they are as like
" to originate and become hereditary
in the male as in the female. AS there
is an affinity between plants to admit
of breeding, so there must be the same
among plants, and the motile pollen
promotes, if it does cause, excitability
in the female organs of the flower. and
there cause a responsive action from
those below and beyond, as already sta
ted.-A. s. Fuller, in american Agri-
culturtst.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

A report of the condition of blast
furnaces in the Uuited States on Feb
ruary ! indicates very substantial
improvement in the iron trade. At
that date there we're in blast 353
furnaces, with a weekly capacity OF
136,255 tons; out of blast, 235, with
q weekly capacity of 54,316 tons.
February I, 1886, there were in blast
s6S furnaces, with q weekly capacity
of 93,78O tons. January 1, 1887,
the number in blast was 332, with a
weekly capacity of 127,66O tons.
The estimate output for January was
STE, 900.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

Amember of the Massachusetts, legis-
'ature has been shocked by reading
accounts of public hangings. He has
proposed a bill which he thinks will
put a stop to the bad effects of execu-
tions. His plan is to have executions
in private and to have scaffolds so ar.
ranged that Just before the drop takes
place q curtain can be lowered which
will shut out all view of the criminal.
He also advocates executing criminals
by e of electricity.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03
A Log Roller.

While Jay Gould was in Little Rock,
a few days ago. the anti-monopoly
members of the Legislature sprang from
their seats when they heard that the
great monopolist had arrived, and, for
getting the precious people and the in
terstate commerce bill, ran after Mr..
Gould.
While Gould, surrounded by worship,
ing enemies, was standing 0 a street
corner, an old negro showed his way
through the crowd, approached the
railroad czar, and said:
Look heah, dis heah amt Jay
Gould. is it?"
That's my name"
'De Gould whut dars so much 'plaint
erboutp"
There is some complaint with re-
gard to me, I regret to say"
''Wall, / declar. An dis heah little
man is de pusson dat hab raised SIGH er
skeer! wy, sab. Use got Ell boy dat
amt no mo- dan nineteen yehas ole dat
ken whup yer; ken fling yer down. sah,
an gin yer de vantage O. de holt.
When I heerd folks talk erbout yer /
thought dat you II mighty man,
did, sho. Heard er lot o. white men er
talkin' an one o. 'em said dat yer'd5
come down heah ter log-roll wild the
legislator. Wy, little man, yerse'f
doan' kno' how ter roll logs. I bet yer
dat as ole as | is right now-an' I'll be
sixty-f in August-I ken out lif' yer at
er han'-spike. Wanter try me. sahP"
II believe not Mr.. Gould replied.
''Haw, haw! yer knows that I ken
down yer. Talk ter me erbout er log
roller!!'-Ark0nsGW IrGceler.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

In an interview Sir Lionel West,
British minister at Washington, said:
II do not anticipate any trouble
whatever about the fishery question.
Negotiations are now goingforward in
London between Minister Phelps and
theBritish government and l think the
question will be finally settled before
congress adjourns. Even ifthe retalia-
tory and non-intercourse bill becomes
a law, I do not think the relations
between this country and Canada
will be strained.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03
Gen. Greely, Now.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram. Feb. 49,
Capt Adolphus W. Greedy has been more
fortunate than most Of the arctic explorerA
Only . few months ago he was advanced
from lieutenant to captain, and to-day the
president nominated him chief signal oflces
to succeed Hazen, with the rank Of brigadieH
general II the senate confirms him he will
retain his rank as brigadier general, even il
the signal service be transferred to one OF
the civil Departmental This is an extraor.
binary promotion. The president il undoubt-
eddy convinced that Greedy Is qualifed to
perform the duties of chief signal officer. In
order to give complete satisfaction through,
out the country, however, the now chief
will find it necessary to improve his method
Of predictions, for there have never been 30
many complaints from all portions Of the
oountry of inaccurate predictions as to the
weather az there have been within the last
few monthR OF tho confirmation OF Greedy
there can hardly be any question.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

The Red River Valley Farmers alli-
ance was organized at Fargo by the
members of the various local alliances
on both sides of the river. The off,
GERS are: E. M. Epson, Cummings,
president; C. A. Malette, ~Casselton,
recording secretary; E. A. Webb,
Fargo, corresponding secretary; A.
McHinch,, treasurer; Lyman Loring,
Moorhead, and, DR.. Sattlersthwaite,
vice presidents. An executive commit
tee of one from each county was auth
orized. and g. constitution and by
laws adopted.
The residence of D. A. Kelsey, near
Cavour, nine miles northeast of
Huron, was entirely destroyed by fire.
All the furniture, clothing, ETC., were
consumed, the family narrowly escap-
ed with their lives. Mr.. Kesley is IN
St. Louis on business. The loss is
estimated at So, 900; no insurance.
The National Bank Of Dakota, at
Huron, is chartered with d. r. Slot
president, and ]. E. King cashier.
Tho Queen Bee mill property in
Sioux Falls has been redeemed from
sale for delinquent taxes for 1884 and
1885 BY George /. Seney OF N. Y. The
amount required was $8,513. It is
understood that the mill will be put
IN operation early in the season by
Mr.. Seney.
At Watertown, Harvey Thompson
and Mrs. Ida Henderson Of Henry were
arrested, charged with adultry. Both
parties were indicted before the grand
Jury at the june term for the same Of
tense.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

So far this year the railroad mileage
constructed is about two and one
half times as great as that of the cor
responding period OF 1886. There are
many we'll informed persons who be-
lieve that 1887 is destined to surpass
ali former years in the matter of rail-
road building, and the danger is rath-
or that too much instead of too little
track-laying will be done in the next
twelve months.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03
The Reason Was Good.

A bright youngster Of this city sent
his irst letter to an aunt ina nelghbor-q
ing town the other day, and the recip-
lent, instead Of replying directly to The,
writer, sent. word to his mother that IL
was q very creditable initial attempt
indeed. The compliment was repeated
to him, and he said: We'll, il she
thought 50 much Of it why didn't she
answer lit" The anne epitome of man
remarked recently: III you should die.
mamma. would get 9 verysyonna
mother to take your place IL
was the natural query. '.Be:ass
was the answer, 'tshe would last
much longer. - Boston Gazette.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

The cars on the New York Elevated
railroads are heated by steam from
The engines, but the managers of other
roads do not seem to be aware of this
act, when they are asserting that the
problem has not yet been solved.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

Bradstreet's estimates the losses
from the result of strikes in this
country since January / at $780,
900. If this ratio should be kept up
during the rest of the year the strike
losses for 1887 would be nearly $780,.
DOC, 200, or more than the estimated
surplus revenue of the Government.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

Thomas Keene, the eminent TRACE
dian, who was stricken with paralysis
bver a year ago, has recovered suffi-
siently to be out again, though he has
not returned to the stage. His physi-
clans think he can resume work by
April, and he has already begun to
make arrangements for a profession
al tour in the east.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

1t is reported from Chicago that the
knights of Labor in that city propose
20 buy 800 acres of land on the shore
IT Lake Michigan within 100 miles OF
The Western metropolis and start a
} gigantic cooperative colony.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-03-03

AVA"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-Mr. Miller intro
duced a bill to appropriate money to pay the
cost Of drilling wells over three Thousand
feet deep in every state and in seven terri
tories, and to give all the profits of the valu-
able minerals found therein for school pur-
poses. Mr.: Whitthorne introduced q bill to
create q naval reserve in auxiliary cruisers,
officers and men from the mercantile marine
Of the United States. The senate-45 to 2
passed Hale's bill for the increase Of the
naval establishment The nays were: Messrs.
Coke, Jones (Ark), Plumb, Vance, Van Wyck,
the construction of heavily armored vessels
for coast defense and also for gun boats and
torpedo boats, and appropriating $l5, 400
0OOto be available during five years from
March 4. 1887. The house bill to establish
Ias aaest ct Of t Rse% se@g p IN see T Tss senate es,
resumed consideration Of the Eads Tehuan-
tepec ship railway bill, and Mr.. Vest offered
. substitute to the bill #1|
Az thus amended. the amendment was
agreed to. The substitute was then agreed
to without discussion, and the bill, as thus
amended, wat passed-yeas ~, nays z. The
nays were MessrA Ednunds, Jones (Ark.),
Morrill,, Plat, Vance, Van Wyck and Wilson
Qowa).
TIE LOWER BRANCH. ".@
By q vote SO to 100, the house refused to
pass tho Texas seed bill yer the veto. When
the house had disposed Of the Mormon bill
and the diplomatic appropriation bill, Mr..
Randall, from the committee NO applOpria-
tions, reported back the sundry civil service
appropriation bill, with senate amendments,
recommending concurrence in twenty-five,
and no~nconcurrence in 236 amendments
The chief points in controversy were rela-
tive to tho appropriations tor the coast sur
vey and the seamen's retreat In New York.
j. SENATE.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1s.-Ths senate took
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-02-23
The Freedman's Savings Bank.

The Inter- Ocean gives the following
history of the Freedman's Savings Bank:
The Freedman's Pank was proposed as
q purely charitable enterprise to encour-
age frugality and thrift among the newly
liberated blacks. MIR. Summer reported
the chartering the bank, / ebruary II,
1865, and on the I'd Of March, following,
it became law. The bank was estab-
lished in Washington, and braneh banks
to the number of thirty-four were (after-
ward) located in different parts of the
Union. The institution was authorized
to receive the deposits of negroes, and
invest the same in the stocks, bonds,
Treasury notes, or other securities of the
United States. 1t was not intended to
be money-making concc.n, either for
bankers or depositors, but to provide for
the safe-keeping of the treedman's
savings. The government did not
guarantee the safety of the bank
though the negroes were gener-
ally made to believe that It had
done so-nor did it take the proper pre-
cautions to secure honest management.
As consequence, q number OF the
trustees, who were also imp 'icated in
many other financial irregularities, were
enabled to take complete control of the
bank, and manage it to suit their own
interests. During the nine years. of the
banks existence, it handled no less than
$50, 200, 900 of deposits. Then it sus.
pended payment, and committee of
Congress was appointed to investigate
matters. 1t found that the bank had
been scandalously mismanaged, its char
ter regulations ignored, a. d its funds
dissipated by loaning on inadequate Sc
curity. By law, the investments OF the
bank were confined to government Sc.
curities, but this law was ignored, and
the funds used to aid the wildcat
schemes of the "ring" and their friends.
Unimproved real tate, unstable stocks
(such as that of tho Maryland Freestone
Mining and Manufacturing Company.
alias the "Seneca Stone Company"l, and
personal notes, were among The assets OF
the bank. Deficits and embezzlements
at the branch banks also produced many
losses. The unsecured debts owed by
the bank to dcpositors July IL, 1874,
amounted to 81, 100000. The assets,
which realized more than was expected,
Welded nearly 100000. Dividends
have been paid at various times, but
many small depositors. through .gnor-
ance and despair, forfeited their divi-
dends BY not calling for them. In all
n, 600 dividends, amounting to S112, 900,
were thus forfeited. The cost of "wind-
ing up" this bank was $475,000. For
some years three bank commissioners
were employed at salary of $1,000
each. But in February. 1881, the affairs
of the bank were all turned over to the
COMPTROLLER of the currency, at great
saving OF expenses.
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The Moonshiner's Ancestors.

Rude in speech, figure and habit;
barely lettered, though rarely entirely
unlettered; cunning, bold, determined
and reckless of life, he is apart from the
men of any of the people who dwell on
the plains on either side of his mountain
range, and has code Of manners, Gus
toms and morals that is unknown to the
outer world. The origin of the noun
taincers that inhablt the ranges from
Virginia to Arkansas is sub yect that
mig ght tempt the curiosity of serious
historian. The veStiges of the early
population, and of some of the singular
episodic inroads that accompanied the
steady flow of English colonization, are
still plainly perceptible. From the semi
ducal plantations of the kings favorltes
in Virginia and the Carolinas many of
those unfortunate or criminal wretches
who were transported from the mother
country to be penal slaves in the fields
of heartless and mostly absentee masters
escaped into the refuge of the mountains.
and, animated by despairing hope OF
freedom, sought the most inaccessible
hiding places. To the escaped convict,
trembling under the remembrance or
masters lash, and willing to dare any
native danger to escape the slavery he
had fed, the approach of another refugee
was as full of terror as of comfort. The
runaway felon could trust nobody; or
perhaps he had brand upon his fore
head to hide from curious eyes, and
wherever he made his home it was kept
remote from neighborship, and made as
uninviting as possible to adventurous or
suspicious eyes.
There is little doubt that among the
first settlers of the mountains were these
British convicts sold into slavery to the
American plantations, and condemned to
a life of laborious servitude, which they
only escaped by such hardships as could
tempt no free man. The free pioneer
and the woodsman pushed on across the
mountains or through the passes and
cleared for himself an empire and garden
in fertile Kentucky and middle Tennes-
see, or sought the, softer air and cotton
lands of the Southern States. The
escaped convict was afraid to venture In
either direction, lest he should rush into
the hands of former master or overseer,
who would identify and re-enslave him.
So, with that last instinct for personal
freedom that has always possessed the
Caucasian race in every land, he clung to
the mountains of his refuge, secure in
his solitude. and getting his pace in the
impregnability of his retreat.-Southern
P5ron1r
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AT Washington, q few days ago,
there was a sale of articles which had
accumulated in the Dead Letter Office
during the last year. There were some
$4,000 miscellaneous articles. The fol-
lowing are specimens: Women's cheap
hosiery, garters, corsets, chemises, bus
ties, underskirts, shoulder-braces,m mems
underwear, cotton hose, suspenders,
collar buttons, soiled linen, damaged
hose and damaged shoes. Smoking
and plug tobacco and cotton hose are
frequently in the same package. No.
164 contains a cheap revolver, plug
tobacco, and cheap watch. Another
contains two pairs women's cotton
hose, pair infants socks, and some
sheet wax. Steel pens, rosaries, razors,
some of them badly damaged, galvanic
girdles, mirrors, sewing-machine nee-
dies, playing-cards, cigars, cigarettes,
a rope halter, soap, women's back.
combs, doll-corsets, egg-beaters, can
openers, dentophones, ear-muffs, cleo
trio batteries, cheese-trier, abdominal
supporters, gold leaf, dark lanterns,
sugar spoons, crucifix, seersucker
suit, oil-paintings, music, boys boots,
women's shoes, Easter eggs, toys,
games, damaged pants, marbles, mems
slippers tseven and half, six small
sewing machines, plumbers pipe-cut'
ter, Indian moccasins, mans damaGs>
felt hat, auger-bits, tooth-brusnes,
bayonets, mans old frock coat, Turk
ish-bath towels, violin strings, towel
racks, shoemaker's edge-plane, har-
monicas, dentists forceps, duck calls,
flies, roller-skates, undertakers' en-
balming needles, bow and arrows,
pipes, artificial eyes, fsh-hooks, demi-
John, clinical thermometer, -four -sift-
ers, and iron and metal castings.
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BeUare of DraughtS.

This is the time Of year for colds, neu
ralgia, rheumatism, pneumonia, ane
kindred complaints. A little draugh
NAV produce either. A Spanish proverl
runs as follows:
II cold winds rearh you through hole,
Go make your will and mind your SOUL
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THOMPSON 81. MURcH, the stonecut-
ter who surprised everybody by defeat
ing Eugene Hale for Congress in 1879,
died recently in the insane asylum at
Danvers, Mass. He was 49 years old,
and belonged to the large class OF men
who Cannot stand prosperity"
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Shakespeare tells how THIS can be accom-
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bronchitis. asthma, catarrh, consumption, and
NIL diseases of the pulmonary and other or:
Scrofulou ulcers, swell nCs and tumors are
cured by its wonderful Alternative action. BY
irup0is ats
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Ex-Mayor Latrobe, Baltimore, Nd, says the
best cough medicine is Red Star Cough Cure.
DR.. Samuel X. Cox, d. d., OF Washington, D..
c., after q careful analysis, pronounced 1t
purely vsge' able, and most excellent for
throat troubles Price, twenty-five cents a
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What n thrill OF terror pass.s over us When
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which could be snbuued BY DR.. ercc's Cold
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NINE WEEKS A CRIPPLE

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and am better in every respect than have
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AMONG the remarkable WOODS Of South Af-
RIGA is snee1ewood tPtero2ylon utlle), when
In durability is said TO surpas, even lignum-
yitp, producing machine bearings which have
heen know to outlast those Of both brass and
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AS the greatest pan-cure. st. Jacobs Gil is
recommended by public men of America and
other countries. Hon. ELLA Flint, Life Sena-
for o? tie Dominion Parliament. Canada.
70 md it 10 act like "a charm.
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New YORK Cry drinks 5000, 900 b,rrels Of
beer every year, at q cost OF SIS, 100000.
A Fortune for You.

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and live ut home, earning thereby from S. to
&25 and upwards daily. from the first start.
Some have made over $50 in day, The best
chance ever known by working people. Now
ia the time-delay not.
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DR.. Pierce's "Favorito Prescription" is q
most powerful restorative tonic, and combines
the most valuable nervins properties; espe-
cialy adapted to the wants of debli q ed la
dies suffering from weak back, inward fever,
congestion Inflammation, or liberation, or
from nervousness or neuralgia pains. BY
drug gists
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If you have a Cold, Cough, dry-hacking)
Group. Cankered throat, Catarrh Dropping
causing cough DR.. Kilmer's Indian Cough Cure
Consumption OiO will relieve instantly-heals
opd furaa Io,ice and
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THE slaughter of Holsters at Prince Edward
Island is s1methirg astounding. There were
exported the pa st season VI ,OO1 cases. mostly 10
Emrone Which involved the killing of 3,OU0,.
mn lnhStpr,.